Brian Kagwe

Police have launched investigations into the death of a university student who is said to have committed suicide.

According to initial reports, Brian Kagwe, 22, shot himself dead using his father’s gun in Loresho, Nairobi, minutes after he had survived an accident.

Brian, who was a student at the United States International University, took his father’s pistol from the bedroom and shot himself twice in the chest as his mother pleaded with him not to take away his life, police said.

Police revealed that after Brian got involved in an accident, he and two friends abandoned their car on the road and called an Uber taxi to take them home.

The Uber driver is among those who have been questioned so far.

He told police Brian and his two friends rode in his car and he dropped them at their respective homes.